> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 723](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120854) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2469-1) LSID 2469-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11685183) QID Q11685183 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Edwards, John (*fl*. 1763-1806), British flower-painter. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Edwards* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Edwards*\] #### Original manuscripts and drawings Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 496; BB p. 100; BM 2: 512; DU 104-105; HU 2: 605 \[ind.\], 645; NI 578-579; PR 2620, PR (ed. 1): 2909-2910. #### Eponymy *Edwardsia* Salisbury (1808) is dedicated to Sydenham Teast Edwards (1769?-1819), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1624. The British herbal **Title** *The British herbal*, containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants which blow in the open air of Great Britain, accurately coloured from nature, with their botanical characters, and a short account of their cultivation, &&. By John Edwards. The whole corrected according to the latest editions of botany. London (author) \[1769-\] 1770. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Brit. herb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: In 25 parts 1769-1770 (plates \[except 1-48\] dated), p. \[i\], \[1\]-50, \[1, ind.\], 100 hand-coloured copper engravings of drawings by the author. *Copy*: NY. Reissued in 1770 (Henrey 675, see also GF) and in 1775 as *A select collection of one hundred plates...* London, Fol. (Henrey 676, see also BM, PR). *Ref*.: BM 2: 512; DU 104; GF p. 56; Henrey 674-676; HU 2: 383-384; Jackson p. 232; NI 578; Plesch p. 216-217; PR 2620.